Arlene Kramer Richards (born June 1935) is a practicing psychoanalyst and author based in

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. She has written seven children books and papers on female sexuality, perversion and gambling.

Career

Kramer Richards is a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society and

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. She additionally serves as a councilor at the

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. She has taught at the

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School for Social Work, the Silver School of Social Work at

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, IPTAR, American Institute for Psychoanalysis (AIP), and at the

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Writing and research

In 1997, she presented on primary femininity and female genital anxiety for the ''American Journal of Psychoanalysis''.

Personal life

Arlene Kramer Richards lives in Palm Beach, Florida with her husband

Arnold Richards Arnold Richards (born August 1934) is a psychoanalyst and former editor of ''The American Psychoanalyst'' and '' Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)''. Richards also is the Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York P ...

Selected publications

*Myths of Mighty Women. With Lucille Spira. London: Karnac 2015 *''Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand''. Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards Nancy Goodman Ed. New York: IPBOOKS 2013 *''Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely''. With Arthur A. Lynch& Lucille Spira Eds. New York: IPBOOKS 2013 *''The Perverse Transference and Other Matters: Essays in Honor of Horacio Etchegoyen''. With Jorge L. Ahumada, Jorge Oligaray & Arnold D. Richards, Eds. New York: Aronson. 1997. *''The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin Bergmann'' with Arnold D. Richards (eds.) Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press. 1994. *''Dream Portrait: A Study of Nineteen Sequential Dreams as Indicators of Pretermination''. With A. Bond and D. Franco. et al. International Universities Press. 1992. *''Fantasy, Myth and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow''. New York: International Universities Press. 1988. Edited with H. Blum, Y. Kramer and A.D. Richards. *''Blood. In: The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust'' eds. Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers New York: Routledge 2012. *''Little boy lost. In: Mourning in the Analyst''. ed. Kerry Malawista & Anne Adelman. In Press. *''Rage and Creativity: Second Wave Feminists and the Rejection of “Freudian” Thinking''. Mind and Human Interaction 2003 13:145-155. *''Fruitful Uses of Telephone Analysis.'' Insight: International Psychoanalytical Association. 2003, pp. 30–33.

Bibliography

* ''Boy Friends, Girl Friends, Just Friends'' (1978) * ''What to Do If You or Someone You Know Is Under 18 and Pregnant'' (1983) * ''How to Get It Together When Your Parents Are Coming Apart'' (1986) * ''Fantasy, Myth, & Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow'' (1988) * ''The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin S. Bergmann'' (1994) *''Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely'' (2012) * ''Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand: Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards'' (2013)

References

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